A registered charity, rooted in education
We help children stay in school, help people learn skills that become livelihoods, and care for the communities around us, always with dignity at the centre.
What we believe
It changes a family.Education can shape a future and, over time, strengthen an entire community. Our journey began with this simple belief.
Everyone deserves a chance.To learn, to work, to live with dignity and to build a life of greater independence.
Small acts add up.Keeping a child in school. Teaching a skill. Caring for an elderly person. On their own they seem small. Together they last.
Our work
Giving becomes truly meaningful when it helps someone move forward. Our work grows from the classroom outward, into livelihoods, everyday care and the places people call home.
We support children from families with limited means, so that money never becomes the reason a child gives up on school. We also take educational programmes and workshops into rural communities, bringing learning and guidance to people who might not otherwise have access to them.
“When a child is given education, we are not only investing in that child. We are investing in everything that child can become.”
Training, practical experience and encouragement that help people from different backgrounds discover their abilities and earn a meaningful livelihood. The best support eventually lets a person support themselves.
We support people with disabilities towards self-employment and independence while minding their essential needs. We help senior citizens with necessities and open doors for women through skills and employment.
Plantation drives and solar energy projects that bring volunteers, learners and villages together to care for the world we share.
Care, rescue and welfare for stray animals, because the communities we serve include every life in them.
Learning in rural communities · Manjakudi
In Manjakudi, a village in rural Tamil Nadu, we take learning beyond the textbook. Students explore hands-on activities in the school’s tinkering lab and fill the hall for our sessions on skills, careers and what comes after school.
For many of them, it is a first look at paths they had not imagined were open to them.
Skills in action · Salaam Bombay
With the Salaam Bombay Foundation’s Media Academy, we teach photography to children and young people growing up in the slums of Mumbai. Their photographs capture the daily lives of their own neighbourhoods, told in their own way.
A camera gives them a voice, a creative skill and the confidence that comes with it. It can also open the door to a livelihood.
Skills in action · Through their own lens
We teach photography to children and young adults with special needs. Learning to handle a camera, frame a picture and cover a real event builds focus, confidence and a skill they can grow into a livelihood.
Our young photographers have gone out on field assignments and covered events such as the Special Olympics Bharat National Health Fest, working alongside professionals.
Standing on one’s own · Livelihoods
Sometimes the best help is the means to earn. We have helped people get their own vehicles, from an auto-rickshaw to a car, so that they can drive for a living and support their families with dignity.
A vehicle of their own means steady income, freedom to choose their own hours and the pride of building something themselves.
Green initiative · Tree plantation
Our plantation drives bring volunteers, families and local leaders together. Mothers, grandmothers and children plant fruit-bearing saplings such as mango and coconut in their own village, so each tree gives shade, fruit and a reason to keep caring for it.
From village grounds to open fields, every drive leaves behind a little more green and a community that feels it belongs to them.
A rescue story
When we found this pup, its skin was raw and its fur almost gone. With treatment, food and a lot of patience, it grew into the bright, playful dog you see now. Every stray we help deserves the same second chance.
From the field
Families come to us so that school fees never stand between a child and the classroom. These are a few of the moments we have shared with them.
Caring for the communities around us
Standing with our municipal workers
Municipal sanitation workers do some of the hardest and least seen work in our cities, every single day. We stand with them, offering support and recognition for the care they give to the neighbourhoods we all share.
Get involved
Every learner who gains a skill, finds work and builds confidence is proof of what we can do together. You don’t need to be an expert, only willing to share what you know.
Many of our volunteers tell us they gain as much as they give.
Offer to volunteer →Our plantation drives and environmental activities bring volunteers, learners and communities together. Join us at the next one and help plant a greener future.
Join the next drive →Sometimes it begins with one person choosing to help another.
There is always more that can be done. As Shikshadayini grows, we hope to welcome volunteers who give their time, professionals who share their skills, and anyone who wants to contribute in whatever way they can.
We want to build a community that carries responsibility towards society every day, not only now and then. One act of help can become the beginning of something much bigger.
Contact
Write to us about volunteering, partnerships, CSR support or our next plantation drive. We read every message.
Shikshadayini
contactshikshadayini@gmail.com
Registered Charity No. ABETS2271GF20231